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It is using Bing engine and data.

• anoonmoose 5y ago
  That would make it even funnier!
  • cigaser 5y ago
    It is not a joke. There is a partnership with Microsoft. Search engines are hard.
    • kortilla 5y ago
      Whoosh. The joke is that Google owns DDG despite it being backed by Bing.
• magnusmundus 5y ago
  ...among other sources. "Over four hundred" [1] of them. [1] https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/
  • Seirdy 5y ago
    Those apply only to non-organic results (instant answers, zero-click info). Organic results are proxied from Bing (or sometimes Yandex) verbatim. DuckDuckGo's crawlers only fetch icons and scrape data for some of their instant answers.
  • skinnymuch 5y ago
    They aren’t really used for the actual index. Bing represents 95% of their actual index.